Received my first BP firearm of any kind yesterday. The first thing I did was remove the wedge and examine it. With the cylinder in my hand I could closely examined the nipples as I want to remove them and put anti-seize on the threads. The nipples on this thing look like they dont have enough enough of a flat sticking up to even get a wrench on. I don't have a nipple wrench yet, this was strictly an examination. My research shows some horror stories about broken or worn wrenches. I'm looking to get a good one the first time, I don't want a "drawer full of nipple wrenches", you know like the proverbial drawer full of holsters? Are these Pietta nipples going to be difficult to remove and what wrench should I get? What is the measurement across the flats on these? I'm not shooting this thing til I find out. Stayed up til 1:30 trying to get an answer.

The nipples should come out with little troule. I've found that the Universal nipple wrench from the Possible Shop is the best all round wrench you can buy. It's a little pricey; but you will never break it, even on the toughest most corroded nipple.

I've got two of these, the oldest being about 20 years old, one in my shooting box and one on my workbench. At one time or another, I've bent broken or stripped out all the other nipple wrenches you can buy. Even the vaunted Ted Cash ratcheting wrench.

Thank you, FM, that's the one I was looking at last nite. I hate paying that much, but I figure by the time I get to it, I'll have to pay that much in broken wrenches. That makes the price of this one only half, I guess, after I get it anyway! That's what the little woman said about it, anyway. I'm brand new at this. I didn't get a starter kit, I wanted to get good stuff from the beginning, so any other help is much appreciated.

I will vouch that this is good stuff, I got mine from the Buffalo Arms Co. along with good pricing on some other great stuff.
The wrench is hardened which makes it fairly impervious to the often experienced nipple wrench problems that the non-hardened wrenches suffer from.

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